Encyclopedia Titanica

Thomas E. Golembiewski

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Ann Straube, 92, One of Last Survivors of Titanic Disaster
Ann Straube, 92, one of the last survivors of the Titanic disaster, died Tuesday at her Northwest Side home. Born in 1897, Mrs. Straube was 14 at the time of the disaster. She boarded the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in Southampton, England, with he...
Ann Straube
Ann Straube, 92, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday in her North Side home. Mrs. Straube, a homemaker, was 14 when she managed to get aboard a lifeboat when the British passenger liner sank o...
Verdict on 'Raise the Titanic' : "Life is too short"
TOWER TICKER". . . . Film critic Pauline Kael, according to New York Post columnist Claudia Cohen, charged out of a press screening of "Raise the Titanic" muttering,...
OLDEST SURVIVOR REMEMBERS THE TITANIC
Mrs. MacKenzie lives alone in a small house in Hermosa Beach, Calif., still drives a car, has outlasted three husbands and has sailed the Atlantic 10 times since the 1912 tragedy....
Mrs. Bertha Christensen
Mrs. Bertha Christensen Services for Mrs. Bertha Christensen, 83, of 4205 Fullerton Av., will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in th...
Deaths Elsewhere
Deaths Elsewhere__________Oscar R. Houston, 86, the principal counsel in the Titanic, Lusitania, Morro Castle, Normandie, and Andrea Doria sea disasters and the man who planned the r...
Survivor, 74, of Sinking of Titanic Dies
Services for Mrs. Vivian Forsander, 74, a survivor of the Titanic which sank April 15, 1912, drowning more than 1,500 persons, will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 10001 Western av.Mrs. Forsander, who was born in Sweden, died Sa...
Passenger on Titanic Recalls 1912 Tragedy
Mrs. Hans Christensen, 72, keenly remembers a cold April night in the Atlantic ocean nearly 54 years ago when she sat in a bobbing lifeboat and helplessly watched the liner, Titanic, quietly slip beneath the frigid waters off the coast of Newfou...
Claimed to be the oldest surviving member of the crew of the Titanic
Deaths ElsewhereJacob Gibbons, 89, who claimed to be the oldest survivng member of the crew of the Titanic; an engine room worker who was one of the last to leave it when it sank; in Studland, Engl...
Fred A. Weber
Chicago Tribune, Monday, October 29, 1962, s. 3, p. 8:ObituariesFred A. WeberSalt Lake City, Oct. 28 (AP)---Fred A. Weber, 72, one of the last surviving crew members of the Titanic, d...
Doris Day Slated to Star in 'Molly Brown'
LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD Doris Day Slated to Star in 'Molly Brown' Hollywood, March 1---Tammy Grimes' heart will be broken when she learns that Bob Wellman has bought "The Unsi...
Judy May Get Star 'Molly Brown' Role
LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD Judy May Get Star 'Molly Brown' Role Hollywood, Jan. 22---Judy Garland will star in 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown,' if Freddie Fields gets the pict...
49 YRS. AFTER TITANIC SINKS, SURVIVOR DIES
In the hour after midnight on April 15, 1912, death overlooked Mrs. Bertha Cooper when the luxury liner Titanic sank after striking an iceberg. Saturday--49 years to the hour after the disaster that took the lives of 1,517--Mrs. Cooper died of cancer at the age of 71....
3 Victims Laud Titanic Film
Three Survivors of the Titanic--the only three in Illinois--watched a screening yesterday of "A Night to Remember," an enormously exciting drama of the sinking of that magnificent liner on its maiden voyage 27 y...
44 YEARS LATER
At the time of the Andrea Doria-Stockholm collision at sea last week, Gen. David Sarnoff, RCA board chairman, was within 40 miles of duplicating his historic feat of being the first man to pick up the distress signal from the SS Tita...
KUP'S COLUMN
". . . . Almost as soon as the news of the sinking of the Andrea Doria was flashed to the world, 20th Century-Fox decided to reissue its epic of a sea drama, "Titanic," story of the maritime disaster of 44 years ago. . . . "...
Salavage Ship Active Where Titanic Sank
A British salvage vessel, the Help, was reported today using heavy explosives in the north Atlantic roughly over the spot where the Titanic sank in 1912. Nothing could be learned of the nature of the ship's activities, first reported from Ha...
Looking at Hollywood
“THE TITLE “Nearer My God To Thee” is now definitely “Titanic.” It should have been all along, but 20th Century had to clear it, and that cost a pretty penny. . .”Chicago Tribune, Mond...
Film Story of Titanic Sinking Gets the Green Light
LOOKING AT HOLLYWOODby Hedda HopperFilm Story of Titanic Sinking Gets the Green LightHollywood, Feb. 22--Darryl Zanuck has given the green light to Charlie Brackett t...
Mrs. Ida Hippach Leaves $85,000 Estate to Daughter
The will of Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, leaving an estate estimated at $85,000 to a daughter, Mrs. Jean Unander-Scharin of Lake Forest, was filed for probate yesterday. Mrs. Hippach died a month ago at the age of 74 in her home at 2808 Evanston. She wa...
Clue to Titanic Survivor Rouses Kin, Friends Here
A possibility that Lorraine Allison, believed to have lost her life in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, may be alive has stirred the interest of several Milwaukeeans who read an Associated Press item from Montreal, Que., in the Journal Thursda...
Child Feared Lost on Titanic Reported Living in Michigan
A Montreal family was stirred today by the prospect that Lorraine Allison, long believed to have been drowned in the Titanic disaster of 1912, still is alive......
Victim of Titanic Disaster, Believed Lost, May Be Alive
Montreal, Que.—(AP)—A Montreal family was stirred Wednesday by the prospect that Lorraine Allison, long believed to have been drowned in the Titanic disaster of 1912, still is alive and living in Berkley, Mich., as Mrs. Lawrence Krame...
Charles Williams Obituary
Williams—Charles Williams passed away Oct. 27, beloved husband of Lois Williams, fond father of Eugene, Ninian, John, Dorothy, Jean and Hilda. Funeral services Wed., Oct. 30th, at 2 pm, from residence, 5524 Lakewood av. Interment Rosehill ce...
FRONT VIEWS AND PROFILES
Ernest Byfield brought back a story from New York told him by both Margalo Gillmore and Myra Hampton that certainly shows that the wags have been cudgeling their brains for stories. This one is hung on the sinking of the Titanic. It seems that ...
SHOTGUN ENDS STUDENT'S LIFE; JILTED, THEORY
"Frat" Brothers Scout Talk of Suicide....
Titanic Victim's Business Closed Out in Montreal
Announcement was made today on the floor of the stock exchange that the brokerage firm of Thornton Davidson & Co., which has connections in New York and Boston, had gone into voluntary liquidation. The firm was established by ...
Michigan Wife Gets $100,000 Alimony
Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, wife of a Dowagiac millionaire, was granted a divorce here to-day.  The Bishops were on the Titanic on their honeymoon trip when the liner went down.  Mrs. Bishop, who charges cruelty and drunkenness, was granted $100,000 alimony....
He Survived Titanic : On the Empress of Ireland, Too
Among more than 300 survivors from the Lusitania arrived in Dublin last night on their way to England was a Dublin man named Toner, who was on the Titanic when it sank and the Empress of Ireland when th...
Third of Family to Meet Tragic End
Nineteen year old Howard Hippach is the last of the three sons of Louis A. Hippach, wealthy plate glass and window glass manufacturer, to meet a tragic death. Howard Hippach was killed Thursday afternoon when a motor car which he was driving went...
TITANIC WIDOW KILLED BY A FORMER SUITOR
San Francisco, Feb. 24---Mrs. S. L. Johnson of Tacoma, Wash., a Titanic widow and a bride of two weeks, was shot and instantly killed at the Sutter Hotel to-day by Abraham Pepper, a former suitor. Mrs. Johnson formerly was Mrs. Herman Klaber. H...
Titanic Was Unsafe
Steward, Suing for Injury in Wreck Says Precautions Were Disregarded...
STEAD'S SPIRIT PICKS WRONG LADY GORDON
Message From Other World Upon Titanic Disaster Goes Astray at London Seance...
MORE SPIRIT NOTES BY STEAD REVEALED
Spirit messages from the late William T. Stead, lost in the Titanic disaster,...
JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBERG
JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBRG By Quick Reversal of Engines and with Helm Hard Aport Liner Gra...
News of the Society World : Mrs. Ryerson Returning
One of the many evidences of Mrs. Marshall Field’s loyalty to Chicago, in spite of nearly a decade spent away from here, is that she has always kept her box for the symphony concerts and has never failed to fill it with friends at each after...
Poet Kemp Lcked Up as Stowaway
Oceanic Officials to Prosecute Him at Southampton...
Sailor, Titanic Survivor, Dies
Reginald Lee, One of Seamen in the Lookout When Steamer Sank, Succumbs in London...
VANDERBILTS ESCAPE WRECK ON THE FRANCE
Liners Near Collision in Heavy Mist; Passengers Thrown About Decks New York, March 22---Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt were among the passengers on the French liner France, which reached...
Ocean Wreck Survivor Dead
John Conley, Last of Passengers on the Steamer Arctic, Succumbs at Age of 80John Conley, last of the survivors of the Arctic, which sank on Sept. 20, 1854, near the...
Second Titanic Baby Born
Cincinnati, O., Nov. 30---Mrs. John Jacob Astor of New York wired congratulations today to Mrs. Mary Eloise Smith, one of the two "Honeymoon" widows of the Titanic disaster, to whom a son was born at the Jewish Hospital here. As far as...
Olympic to be rebuilt
Special Cable to the Examiner. Belfast, Sept. 24---The White Star Line announces definitely that the steamer Olympic, sister of the Titanic, will come to Belfaast from Southampton for renovation. She will be made identica...
Author's Death Kills Mother
Parent of Jacques Futrelle Who Went Down with Titanic Succumbs to Grief Grief over the death of her son, Jacques ...
Friend Tells How Titanic Commander Might Have Escaped
INSISTS CAPT. SMITH LIVES Friend Tells How Titanic Commander Might Have Escaped Baltimore, md., July 21---Still emphatic in his assertions that he saw Captain E. J. Smith, who is supposed to have be...
Sight Body of Titanic Victim
Philadelphia, Pa., July 20—The body of a man lashed to a spar was sighted about seventeen miles from the scene of the Titanic disaster by the British steamship Hudson, which just arrived here. The body was unrecognizable.Chi...
WIDOW SUES TITANIC OWNERS
Mrs. A. Willer of Chicago Asks $10,000 for Husband’s Death Family Left Penniless Red Cross Saves Them from Eviction; Compa...
Algerine picks up one Titanic Victim
Unidentified Remains of Wreck Victim Brought to St. Johns by Steamer Algerine St. Johns, N. F...
BATTLESHIP IN CRASH LIKE TITANIC'S; DAMAGE IS SLIGHT.
BATTLESHIP IN CRASH LIKE TITANIC'S; DAMAGE IS SLIGHT.Value of Subdivision of the Hull IntoLarge Number of Small Compartments Demonstrated Washington, D. C...
A TITANIC HERO
Charles Brown, the English comedian now playing with "A Modern Eve" at the Garrick, lost a number of friends when the Titanic went down. He knew most of the officers on the ill-fated ship, and the purser, McElroy, had been a comrade of...
First Claims due to Titanic Disaster to Be Settled
PAY $20,000 LEWY INSURANCEFirst Claims due to Titanic Disaster to Be Settled In United States, So Far as Known Heirs of the late Ervin G. ...

Jacob William Gibbons

Jacob William Gibbons
Victualling Crew

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